Gotta say – I was browsing the Daily Blink, and the ad in the sidebar was for ‘Call of Roma’. The tagline said “One click for a Roman Orgy!”. I don’t have an issue with revealing armor in WoW – I think it’s amusing, and a few of my toons are pretty scantily clad, but really….? An orgy? Seems a bit excessive to me. I have no doubt that it gets clicks, but I think it would leave me feeling a bit dirty. As if I should run a virus scan and maybe take a shot of penicillin just to be safe 🙂

WoW can get a little weird some times and i have worn armor in which I would have for sure caught pneumonia if I weren’t wearing a tabard. HOWEVER – I give full marks to WoW for their child npc outfits. No flirty little skirts with ruffles under them for the little girls, etc. There is ZERO to attract a viewer looking for that sort of thing (to the best of my knowledge, at least).

All I can say is – TERA. have a look at some videos sometime….they don’t stop at grown-up women.
to be fair, this portrayal of women is rather big (:pun:) in asia especially, a lot more so than in the west.

Reminds me a bit of a game called Shaiya that I played until the files got corrupted on my computer somehow. Needless to say, my character was male, and his armor covered him up nicely. For a game advertised like that, I wouldn’t make a female toon if they paid me. >.>

I agree that WoW has issues with gender presentation in game, but degree does matter, and if you look at WoW advertising, it doesn’t tend towards “the game has boobs!” It tends to have groups of people of both genders doing exciting things together (or… orcs/gnomes dancing with signs in manners reminiscent of the ONE SECRET FOR AUTO INSURANCE types of ads).

Again I totally agree that WoW has issues it needs to fix, but degree does matter, IMO.